The time of my li-i-ife

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Always a stickler for a bumper, the chairman sits by the river and waits for the bodies of his enemies to float by

"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be," I remarked to the chairman of the insignificantly sized investment company SmallBluePlanet as we enjoyed a few pints of Urch at The Worrying Lack Of Onomatopoeic Fund Manager Names In This Business. "Be alert - the world needs more lerts," he replied. "No, better still - if at first you don't succeed, so much for sky-diving." "What on earth are you talking about?" I asked. "I'm sorry," the chairman apologised. "I thought we were doing allegedly humorous quotes from 1970s bumper stickers. I may have been mistaken. What were we really doing?" "Well, I w...

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